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Originally Posted by Cheese
If you teach a child a lie...IF you teach a child that if he prays for something to a God that is nothing more than a figment of relaity...
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What the hell is a "figment of reality"?
Prove to me God does not exist.
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how is this teaching positive beliefs? If you teach a child that a man took 2 of every animal and put them on a boat while an all loving goD destroyed everything he created, this teaches the child what? Can man not teach values without a theistic canon attached?
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Sure he can. That does not make religious based teachings any less valid an outlet. The lesson is what is important, not the delivery.
And fwiw, the story of Noah's Ark was created at a time when people believed in a more vengeful God, as opposed to all loving. It is a metaphor, you know that right?
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Lust for power and control has always been the churches failure.
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Who controls the church?
Did Alexander the Great lust for power and control
because of his religion? Caesar? Napoleon? Hitler?
What about the man who dominates and beats his wife? What about the woman who will tell any lie to screw her husband in a divorce? What about the junkie who kills another junkie in a drug deal gone bad?
Its all about power, its all about control. It is all about the need for both. And it has nothing to do with religion.